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The Grand Babylon Hotel de Arnold Bennett

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Autor Arnold Bennett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2017
Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly buys the chef, the kitchen and the whole hotel. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella discovers that murder, blackmail and kidnapping are also on the menu. A rollicking murder mystery from one of the finest writers of the last century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784872373
ISBN-10: 1784872377
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

Notă biografică

Arnold Bennett was born in Staffordshire on 27 May 1867, the son of a solicitor. Rather than following his father into the law, Bennett moved to London at the age of twenty-one and began a career in writing . His first novel, The Man from the North, was published in 1898 during a spell as editor of a periodical - throughout his life journalism supplemented his writing career. In 1902 Bennett moved to Paris, married, and published some of his best known novels, most of which were set in The Potteries district where he grew up: Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives Tale (1908), and the Clayhanger series (1910-1918). These works, as well as several successful plays, established him both in Europe and America as one of the most popular and acclaimed writers of his era. Bennett returned to England in 1912, and during the First World War worked for Lord Beaverbrook in the Ministry of Information. In 1921, separated from his first wife, he fell in love with an actress, Dorothy Cheston, with whom he had a child. He received the James Tait Black Award for his novel Riceyman Steps in 1923. Arnold Bennett died of typhoid in London on 27 March 1931.

Descriere

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella discovers that murder, blackmail and kidnapping are also on the menu.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Arnold Bennett: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Appendix A: Bennett’s Journal and Letters
  1. From The Journal of Arnold Bennett 1896–1928 (1933)
  2. From Letters of Arnold Bennett (1966–86)
Appendix B: Other Works by Bennett
  1. From The Author’s Craft and other Critical Writings (1914)
  2. From The Truth About an Author (1903)
  3. From Imperial Palace (1930)
Appendix C: Photographs and Caricatures of Arnold Bennett
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews of The Grand Babylon Hotel
  1. Academy (18 January 1902)
  2. Times Literary Supplement (24 January 1902)
  3. From Spectator (25 January 1902)
Appendix E: The Savoy Hotel: Historical Accounts, Photographs, and Related Images
  1. From the Savoy Hotel Website
  2. From Compton Mackenzie, The Savoy of London (1953)
  3. From Stanley Jackson, The Savoy: A Century of Taste (1989)
  4. Photographs from the Savoy Hotel Archives and Related Images
Appendix F: From Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
Appendix G: Film Versions of The Grand Babylon Hotel
  1. Advertisements for the Lost Grand Babylon Hotel Film (1916)
  2. Excerpts from the Draft Screenplay of the Unmade Gavin Lambert/Lindsay Anderson Grand Babylon Hotel Film (1970s)
  3. Correspondence Related to the Film Project
Works Cited and Select Bibliography

Recenzii

“Randi Saloman’s editing makes The Grand Babylon Hotel even grander, adding layers of historical, culinary, linguistic, and geographical detail to this fascinating and revelatory fiction. A lucid introduction and magnificent footnotes help to bring Bennett back to life—a resuscitation he surely deserves! This edition is wonderful for teaching—the contextual material is wisely selected and helps to put Bennett into his proper milieu and to bring him—thanks to Saloman’s scholarly vitality and conviction—into ours.”— Elaine Freedgood, New York University
“For too long Arnold Bennett’s posthumous reputation has been overshadowed by his public disagreements with Virginia Woolf: he decried her cleverness, ‘the lowest of artistic qualities’; while she considered him a ‘workman,’ a ‘materialist,’ the representative of an outmoded generation. But the range and vitality of his works give the lie to Woolf’s assessment, and in The Grand Babylon Hotel we encounter a young and ambitious Bennett, a writer exploring the spaces, identities, and anxieties of urban modernity. Through her careful notes, contextual appendices, and illuminating introduction, Randi Saloman welcomes us to the Babylon Hotel, where anonymity and aporia, the ‘community and connection’ of its rooms and corridors, seem to embody the paradoxes of modern life. Much overdue, this new edition will introduce Bennett’s strange and enthralling ‘fantasia’ to a whole new generation of readers.”— Amber Regis, University of Sheffield
“The modern hotel is a locus for all the fluidities, anxieties, and opportunities for self-invention that define modernity itself, as Arnold Bennett recognized in his delightful, genre-confounding novel The Grand Babylon Hotel, a mystery-farce accented by sharp observations on the nature of modern identity. Randi Salomon’s fine edition of the novel situates it equally well in the contexts of Bennett’s career, of Edwardian and modernist literary history, and of the dynamic first years of the turbulent twentieth century. Her illuminating introduction is equally well-attuned to its playful and thoughtful sides, and demonstrates why, even when he is having fun, Arnold Bennett is worth serious reading.” — Robert Squillace, New York University
“Appendices include Bennett’s views on [Grand Babylon Hotel] from his ‘Journal’ and Letters; quotations relevant to GBH from other writings by Bennett; photographs and images of Bennett; contemporary reviews of GBH; quotations from different histories of the Savoy Hotel including photographs, highly relevant as the Grand Babylon is based on the Savoy as indeed is Bennett’s last completed novel ‘Imperial Palace’ (1930); and details of the ‘lost’ 1916 film of the novel … With all the extras this edition provides outstanding ‘value added’ and is a significant contribution to the 150th celebration of Bennett’s birth in 2017.” — Martin Laux, archivist of the Arnold Bennett Society
“The Grand Babylon Hotel is a ripping good yarn, and Randi Saloman’s new edition for Broadview truly does it justice … Saloman matches the exuberance and vivacity—and the rich detail— of her subject in the first-rate and well-written scholarly apparatus she provides as part of this new edition. Like other Broadview editions, this one comes complete with an extensive and illuminating introduction, appendices providing important background and context on author and work, and detailed explanatory footnotes” — Janine Utell, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920